Wire fence



s. 0. BOWEN. WIRE FENCE.'

(No Model.)

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Patented Mar. 27, 1894.

J l Y No. 517,209'. J-"a STATES SAMUEL C. BOWEN, OF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

wl'RE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,209, dated March 27, 1894.

Application filed July 21, 1893. Serial No. 481,086. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL C. BOWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Medina, in the county of Orleans and State of New York, have invente'd a new and Improved Wire Fence, of which the following is a clear and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication.

My invention relates to a new arrangement of wires, in the construction of a fence manufactured before being placed in position, and attached to posts as a fence.

The objects of my invention are: first, to provide a wire fence, made of materials so equitably distributed and utilized as to be made cheaply, well proportioned, strong and sightly in appearance; second, to provide, in a wire fence, independent tension of each longitudinal wire, rigid marginal intersections and close but elastic connections of intermediate intersections; third, to provide wire stays in a fence, of rigid connections with top and bottom longitudinal wires, and of close, but free and elastic connections with the intermediate longitudinal wires; thus producing the proper elastic action that is necessary in a wire fence and such as can not be produced in a fence where intermediate intersections are rigidly woven together, or in a fence where the intersections are very loose. I attain these objects, as explained in the specification and illustrated in accompanying drawings, in which-l Figure 1 is a front view of a section of the fence loosely attached to two intermediate posts, showing the longitudinal wires and the twisted stays all properly connected with each other. There may be any number and kind of longitudinal wires and the stays may be any distance apart. It shows also, how wood stays may be added to the fence, when desired, after being put up, by fastening them rigidly to the top and bottom longitudinal wires and loosely to the intermediate longitudinal wires. The spiral character of the top and bottom longitudinal wires as completed, provides against the wood stays slipping on the fence, when properly fastened. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views of two continuous strands of wire, showing them in combination with the longitudinal wires, both belongitudinal wire and one around the bottom I longitudinal wire, until the points e e are. reached, where a stay is required. Then the top wire cl is passed to the bottom longitudinal wire on one side of the intermediate longitudinal wires, and the bottom wire d is passed to the top longitudinal wire on the other side, thus making them as shown in' Fig. 2. The wires d d are twisted by suitable means between the longitudinal wires and.

again wound around the top and bottom longitudinal wires to the points where the next stay is required, when the process is repeated as before, as shown in Fig. 3. ff represent places produced by the grip of the twisters.-

This method of securing the stay wires may be slightly varied, without in the least chang-y ing the principles of construction, by twist ing the same with the marginal longitudinal wires as in Fig. 4, which represents a sectional` view of either top or bottom longitudinal wire thus formed by twisting one of the continuous stay wires with two longitudinal wires,- each of the three being of about equal size,- instead of winding it around one larger wire as Fig. 3. Thus it is shown that by either of these methods of securing the stays, they can not be moved out of their position at the top or bottom and by making the twists between the longitudinal wires tight, they will be held firmly in place.

In putting up my fence, the roll is uncoiled and the longitudinal wires are fastened to an end post, loosely attached to intermediate posts and fastened to opposite end post, thus providing independent tension of each longitudinal wire. Stretchers of any kind may be used to provide proper tension. The details both of making and of putting up my fence maybe varied without essentially chan g ing the plan or principles employed.

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I am aware that wire fences, consisting of horizontal and vertical wires variously connected, have been made, but I `have never seen nor heard of a fence like the one herein described. I am also aware that intertwisted stays consisting of two strands, have been made, with the intertwisted parts separately twisted by hand device, with large loops for receiving the intermediate longitudinal wires and with loose ends for attaching to the marginal longitudinal wires. Also that intertwisted stays consisting of two strands, have been made, by being twisted around each intermediate longitudinal wire, after being put up, in similar manner to the one herein described, but with loose and imperfect attachments to the marginal wires. In use, such stays have proved to be very defective, but the ones herein described, when in a fence, are complete and perfect in manner both of construction and of working and are unlike any other stays I have ever seen or heard of.

Having -described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A Wire fence fabric, consisting of longitudinal wires and two continuous strands of wire spirally wound around or twisted with the marginal longitudinal wires, twisted between and snugly to said longitudinal wires and intertwined with the intermediate longitudinal wires, thus forming vertical twisted stays that are continuously connected with the longitudinal wires, thereby completing the fence substantially as described.

2. In a wire fence, stays composed of two continuous strands of wire and formed by spirally windingsaid strands around, or twist ing them with, the vtop and bottom longitudinal wires, to points Where stays are required and then passing them to opposite points of the marginal longitudinalwires andtwisting them between `andsnugly to the longitudinal wires and intertwining them with the intermediate longitudinal wires and, in continuation, forming connectedly and indefinitely, like stays as described.

SAMUEL C. BOWEN.

Witnesses:

LYMAN F. ZIMMERMAN, BURT D. TIMMERMAN. 

